President Trump Fires Entire Historical Advisory Panel Over Rampant Anti-American Bias

In a decisive move to restore integrity and objectivity in the nation’s historical record-keeping, President Donald J. Trump terminated all members of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, citing growing concerns over political bias and anti-American sentiment among its members.

According to a report by The Washington Post, the mass dismissal was conveyed through an email from White House liaison to the State Department, Cate Dillon.

“On behalf of President Donald Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position on the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation is terminated effective immediately,”

Dillon wrote, delivering a clean and immediate break from what critics have long called a compromised and politicized body.

Although the White House did not publicly elaborate on the reasons for the terminations, right-leaning analysts have drawn attention to troubling behavior and statements by former committee members—especially Canadian-American historian Timothy Naftali, who publicized his dismissal on X.

Conservatives were quick to point out Naftali’s long history of hostility toward President Trump and traditional American values, raising serious questions about his fitness to oversee the official record of U.S. foreign policy.

The committee, which advises on the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, plays a crucial role in shaping the historical narrative of American diplomacy. The FRUS series is intended to be objective and accurate. However, with overtly partisan individuals overseeing document selection and release, many believe the committee had strayed dangerously far from its original purpose.

And Naftali wasn’t the only one raising eyebrows.

Committee chairman James Goldgeier, a professor at American University’s School of International Service, has also made inflammatory statements about President Trump. During the COVID crisis and the lawless Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, Goldgeier’s anti-Trump vitriol reached a fever pitch.

“It wasn’t enough for Trump to kill Americans through his incompetence and disinterest in dealing with the pandemic,” he raged in a July 2020 post on X. “Now he’s got DHS attacking peaceful Americans to distract from his failure to care about the pandemic. It’s startling that he has enablers in this effort.”

His post, which falsely painted rioters as “peaceful Americans,” typifies the radical ideology Trump’s team is now working to purge from federal advisory roles.

Another account, shared by @DogRightGirl, captured the sentiment of many conservatives applauding Trump’s bold move:

While Goldgeier told the Post that the committee primarily focuses on Reagan-era documents due to a 30-year declassification rule, he lamented the firings and downplayed any political motivation.

“Right now, the office is still trying to get volumes out from the Reagan era,” he said. “There’s no work that’s being done here regarding the current administration.”

He also argued the committee’s existence was mandated by Congress:

“It just seems to me like they just got a list from all the agencies [of similar committees] … I can’t imagine they looked much into what any of the particular ones did,” he complained. “And I don’t know that they understood that this one is congressionally mandated.”

But a senior State Department official swiftly countered that claim, telling The Post there is a plan in place to maintain the committee—just with new members who understand their role isn’t to promote personal ideologies but to serve the interests of the American people.

“There is a plan in place to maintain the committee.”

This house-cleaning operation comes as President Trump’s approval ratings continue to surge, underscoring the widening gap between the Washington establishment and the American electorate.

A joint poll conducted in April by InsiderAdvantage and the Trafalgar Group showed Trump holding a narrow lead in approval. Of 1,200 likely voters, 46% approved of his performance, while 44% disapproved.

But by late May and early June, Trafalgar’s new data revealed a dramatic shift: 54% of likely voters said they either approved or strongly approved of President Trump’s leadership. Only 46% disapproved—a net swing of 8 points.

Crucially, the survey’s methodology slightly oversampled Democrats, making the uptick even more significant.

Rasmussen Reports confirmed the upward trend. On June 2, their presidential tracker pegged Trump’s approval at 53%, just 3 points shy of his numbers during his second-term inauguration in January.

President Trump’s decision to remove entrenched partisan actors from influential positions signals not only a return to accountability and transparency in government, but also a clear message: the American people are taking their institutions back from the ideological fringe.